Re: rcd(8) - new service manager daemon

On Mon 15 Jun 01:10, Sulev-Madis Silber wrote:
> so this is systemd for freebsd essentially?
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> without it's mistakes
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> but this is not the first time something wants to replace. upstart, launchd, what were all those?
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> on ui, i can see myself making immediate alias "rc" for "rcctl". it's also pretty cursed how service used the arguments the other way round
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> technically this design is pretty sound. but it's like, change, decades of existing habits gone. i don't like changes. i hate changes
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> on technical, this also feels like "inetd-ng" somehow. that socket and fd decouple. the binary swap sounds fancy tho
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> like with pkg(ng), i'm still adjusting to it even today
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> also, could there be additional special control interface to this? i feel like shell autocompletes aren't enough. so, a special rc console?
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> or maybe a ncursea tui?
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> or, relatedly, maybe a remote control and monitoring of a kind. maybe cluster running stuff?
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> with jails also being a thing, is this also a docker for freebsd?

Not at all the jail part is the same as the jail intégration in current rcng.
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> those are like my quick views to this
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Best regards,
Bapt